Textile fabrics and method of making same



c. SHAPIRO ETAL 2,791,821

TEXTILE FABRICS AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed July 51, 1953 May 14, 1957 FIG. I

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7w /fi j] 18 2 INVENTORS ATTORNEYS nited States Patent Office 2,791,821 Patented May 14, 1957 TEXTILE FABRICS ASND METHOD OF MAKING Charles Shapiro and Sidney Shapiro, New York, N. Y., assignors to Shapiro & Sons Curtain Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application July 31, 1953, Serial No. 371,544

2 Claims. (Cl. 2876) This invention relates generally to improvements in textile fabrics and method of making same, and, more particularly, to improvements in composite textile fabrics having an area thereof which is puckered or raised to produce an ornamental effect, and method of making same.

One object of the present invention is the provision of a new and novel composite textile fabric having a puckered or raised effect at certain areas thereof whereby said composite fabric is aesthetically attractive and is eminently suitable for the manufacture of a multitude of articles such as bedspreads, tablecloths, draperies, and the like.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a new and novel method of making the composite textile fabric of the aforenoted character which is simple and inexpensive, and which readily lends itself to efficient and low cost mass production.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more fully understood from the following description considered in connection with the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the drawing which illustrates the best mode now contemplated by us for carrying out our invention:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of an article embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, prior to the wetting operation; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing in detail, there is shown an article which may be a bedspread, tablecloth, drapery, or the like, which is formed of the composite fabric 11 embodying the present invention. The composite fabric 11 comprises a base or ground fabric 12 which has a fabric segment 14 secured thereto in superposed relation therewith, said fabric segment 14 being less shrinkable by wetting than the ground or base fabric 12. In the illustrated embodiment the article 10 has the base or ground fabric 12 thereof formed of chenille and the superposed fabric segment 14 formed of satin, it being understood that the satin fabric segment is less shrinkable by wetting than the ground fabric 12 formed of chenille. The peripherally extending marginal edge portion 16 of the fabric segment 14 is secured to the ground fabric 12 by means of the line of stitching 18, said securement between the ground fabric 12 and segment 14 being effected with said ground fabric and fabric segment in a relaxed condition as clearly shown in Fig. 2. To convert the semi-finished composite fabric article 10 shown in Fig. 2 into the finished composite fabric article 10 shown in Fig. 3, fabric article 10' is subjected to a wetting operation to shrink the ground fabric 12 relative to the fabric segment 14 whereby composite fabric 11 has a puckered or raised effect at the area of the fabric segment 14. Thus the fabric segment 14 is secured to the ground fabric 12 in a flat condition as shown in Fig. 2 and it will be apparent that when the composite fabric 11 is wetted the ground fabric 12 will contract relative to the segment 14 to impart to the latter the puckered or raised effect clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

From the above it will be seen that the article 10 is formed of a composite shrunk textile fabric 11 comprising a ground fabric 12 formed of chenille and a fabric segment 14 formed of satin, said ground fabric being shrunk relative to said fabric segment whereby the composite fabric has a puckered or raised effect at the area of said fabric segment. The article 10 comprising the composite shrunk fabric 11 aforenoted may be further ornamented in any desired manner as by means of tufting 20. If desired, the tufting 20 may be secured to the composite fabric 11 at the areas of the segments 14 whereby to further enhance the effect of the raised superposed segments 14. While in the preferred embodiment article 10 is formed of chenille having superposed thereon satin segments it will be understood that the inventive concept herein illustrated and described is not so limited. Segments 14 superposed on the ground fabric 12 may take any desired form or configuration and may be of any desired size so as to achieve a practically limitless variety of artistic effects.

Accordingly, the composite textile fabric 11 will have a puckered or raised effect at the areas of the superposed segments 14 whereby said fabric is aesthetically attractive and is eminently suitable for the manufacture of a multitude of fabric articles. The method aforedescribed for making the composite textile fabric 11 is simple and inexpensive and readily lends itself to eflicient and low cost mass production.

While we have shown and described the preferred embodiments of our invention, it will be understood that various changes may be made in the present invention without departing from the underlying idea or principles of the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A method of making a composite appliqued fabric. comprising the steps of providing a ground fabric formed of chenille, providing a fabric segment applique formed of satin which is less shrinkable by wetting than said ground fabric and which is of preselected decorative outline and of substantially lesser area than the area of said ground fabric, securing said fabric segment applique to said ground fabric in superposed relation therewith to form a composite fabric, and wetting said composite fabric to thereby contract said ground fabric relative to said fabric segment applique to impart to the latter a puckered or raised ornamental effect.

2. A composite shrunk textile fabric, comprising a ground fabric formed of chenille having peripherally extending marginal edge portions of a fabric segment applique formed of satin stitched thereto in superposed relation therewith, said fabric segment being of preselected decorative outline and of substantially lesser area than the area of said ground fabric, and said chenille ground fabric being shrunk relative to said satin applique whereby the composite fabric has a puckered or raised effect at the area of said applique.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,231,388 Kahil Feb. 11, 1941 2,352,245 Bell et al. June 27, 1944 2,401,830 Kahil June 11, 1 946 2,607,104 Foster Aug. 19, 1952 2,685,120 Brant Aug. 3, 1954 

